Python topics

Python Slides

Python basics

usually 3 days for beginner programmers, 1 day for programmers with knowledge in other languages

• overview of Python and comparison to other programming languages
• installation
• working with the interactive Python console
• variables and basic data types
• composite types: dict, list, tuple
• help and documentation
• builtins and the standard library
• control structures
  • if / else
  • loops (while, for)
• functions
• code quality and linting
• debugging

Python intermediate

usually 2 days

• data types in depth
  • strings and string processing
  • bytes
  • sequences
• object oriented programming and classes
• advanced use of control structures
• creating lists and dictionaries via comprehensions
• throwing and catching exceptions
• modules and packages
• package management in Python

Python in practice

• working with files and folders
• working with various file formats (text, JSON, CSV, XML, ...)
• regular expressions and pattern matching
• time and date
• HTTP client
• introduction to web development
• working with SQL databases
• working with Excel files
• graphical user interface

Python advanced

usually 1 day

• logging
• unit tests
• advanced object-oriented programming
  • properties
  • static attributes and methods
  • magic methods
  • inheritance
• iterators
• functions: advanced
  • lambdas
  • decorators
  • functools
  • memoization
• advanced data types: set, namedtuple, enum
• static typing
• parallelization: threads and multiprocessing